This is awesome - thanks for building this guys. Any plans to maintain or improve it? Guessing not if you're focused on your main business? Any plans to open source it?
Show HN: Startup funding simulator
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#162Very cool.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
if you pay taxes you're winning if you have to pay taxes but don't have cash to do it, you're losing. fix something
Or hire better accountants. No, I’m not talking about the creative kind, but the kind that tell you “hey, your cash reserves are projected to be too low” kind. If your accountants are telling you when it’s too late; you are losing. Hard.
Cashflow management,
but that is mostly up to you. They can’t stop you living beyond your means just tell you what those means are. Another example (in countries that have it) is GST/VAT that you collect and pay the government later assuming you didn’t spend it!
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#164Was totally expecting this to be a snarky game.
The snarky one is for the employees.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd seek out the founder of a company that did this and succeeded. Most don't!
Thanks, appreciate it!
Another reply, much later, hope you'll see it. It kept nagging me because I thought I had written about this, here it is:
https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-david-can-beat-goliath-small...
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#166I sold my biz for 16B then went back and deleted the funding rounds and founders. I made 16B. I like this.
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#167It may be interesting to somehow incorporate a timeline into the scenarios. Along with that, perhaps add operating costs and show the runway.
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#168It would be great to add pre-money SAFEs / CLNs as well, as you do still see these, particularly in Europe.
And as an angel investor, it would be great to have a viewpoint to see how your investment in a company is doing. E.g. you enter how much the company has raised on SAFEs, then series a, b, etc, to see where you end up. This can be more complicated than you think, as you often see companies raise on a SAFE/CLN, then a priced round or two, then a bridge on a SAFE, then another priced round, etc.
Ta! :)